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- ↓ 0.49
- ꩜ 1.12
- ↑ 4.99
{P} → Deflector
During your opponent’s next turn, whenever Erika’s Exeggcute takes damage, divide that damage in half (rounded down to the nearest 10). (Any other effects still happen.)
{G}{C} → Egg Bomb : 40
Flip a coin. If tails, this attack does nothing to the Defending Pokémon and Erika’s Exeggcute does 20 damage to itself.
illus. Atsuko Nishida · LV.15
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Deflector’s Japanese name, リフレクター, is the name of Reflect* in the video games. That move is nominally Psychic type in the video games, which helps explain the {P} cost of the attack.
*’Reflector’ is a more accurate translation than Reflect, as リフレクター is literally read as “Reflector”. Like, it’s not even correct to call this ‘translation’..? It would’ve fit under the 10 character limit, too, so this is one of those cases where WOTC did a better job than NOA. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Wait, never mind. Why is it Deflector and not Reflector? I tried to be nice about something WOTC did but it’s like knew this might happen so they messed it up just to avoid that..